Engage & Persist

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Pass-through is a 3550 word illustrated short story about a dysfunctional family who is poorly dealing with the loss of the erratic father. The concept started very vague and narrowed down and shifted throughout the OI, largely due to feedback given by our coach and peers. Originally it was going to be a ghost story, but we got a lot of very strong feedback that ghosts were overused and unoriginal, so we completely removed ghosts and instead used a character reminiscing in a similar part of the story. We made diagrams of character relationships and feelings, an outline, and building layouts to help streamline the writing process, which was that one of us (me, for most but not all of the story) would write a passage or scene and the others would go through and change wording, remove details that were extraneous or untrue in-world, and all in all make it cleaner and flow better.

The main thing I had to learn about and grow on over the course of this studio is working with someone when you don't particularly like each other and your working styles are very different. This is a thing I've had trouble with in the past, but usually I've been able to just not interact with someone who bothers me. Being placed in a group with someone really forced me to mature in this way. My other main point of growth was in my writing. My writing partner gave me a lot of feedback on my writing, and while I didn't like, it was mostly really good feedback that made our project - and more importantly my writing in general - a lot better. I'm grateful for this experience, and I think I will look back on it as important.